Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation from a Development Perspective

The evaluation of climate change adaptation interventions raises considerable challenges. The report, commissioned by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), assesses the current state of evaluation of climate change adaptation interventions, identifies the main gaps in their evaluation and the current indicators being used to evaluate projects and programmes. It also assesses how to evaluate development interventions from a climate change adaptation perspective

Adaptation to Climate Change: The New Challenge for Development in the Developing World

This paper addresses adaptation measures that reduce vulnerability to climate change as critical, especially in many countries where the risks are here and now. It is intended provide policymakers with a starting point, including background information and questions for further reflection

Climate change: assessing the impacts - identifying responses: The first three years of the UK Climate Impacts Programme

This Report presents the work that has been undertaken in the first three years of the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP). The Programme was established by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) with the aim of establishing a research framework for the integrated assessment of climate change impacts in the UK. Its specific objective is to coordinate and integrate a stakeholder-led assessment of the impacts of climate change at a regional and national level. Assessments under the UKCIP will provide Government and private-sector decisionmakers with information needed to underpin the development of strategies to adapt to climate change. Studies within the Programme fall into two broad groups: sub-UK scoping studies and sectoral studies, which are undertaken in a modular way within a common framework. In the first three years of the Programme five sub-UK assessments studies have been undertaken, four sectoral studies are underway and four further studies are at inception. The results of completed studies are contained in a set of separate Summary and Technical reports for each area1. In addition, tools to support studies have been developed. This Report has four purposes: 1. To explain the approaches and methods which have been developed within the Programme, for the benefit of organisations and the research community within the UK and internationally; 2. To enable the next stage of the work of UKCIP to be planned, so that it meets the needs for national policy and supports organisations at a regional and national scale to prepare adaptation responses; 3. To provide a concise synthesis of the results of studies obtained so far and cross-cutting themes emerging, so these can be assimilated in policy-making and strategic planning; 4. To provide a portfolio of future studies for the next phase of the research programme which is needed to achieve a national assessment. The UKCIP integrating framework is presented in Chapter 1. Results of the sub-UK scoping studies are presented in Chapter 2 and the methodological work underway in the sectoral studies is presented in Chapter 3. This Chapter also contains a review of current sectoral work which is related to the UKCIP framework. In Chapter 4, an attempt is made to integrate and assess study findings and the methods used. Recommendations for future research are outlined in Chapter 5.Technical Report. Copyright © 2000 UKCIP and DETR